=back
+=head2 Plugin Connectivity
+
+connectivity - Documentation of collectd's C<connectivity plugin>
+
+
+ LoadPlugin connectivity
+ # ...
+ <Plugin connectivity>
+ Interface eth0
+ </Plugin>
+
+The C<connectivity plugin> queries interface status using netlink (man 7 netlink) which provides information about network interfaces via the NETLINK_ROUTE family (man 7 rtnetlink). The plugin translates the value it receives to collectd's internal format and, depending on the write plugins you have loaded, it may be written to disk or submitted to another instance.
+The plugin listens to interfaces enumerated within the plugin configuration (see below). If no interfaces are listed, then the default is for all interfaces to be monitored.
+
+This example shows C<connectivity plugin> monitoring all interfaces.
+LoadPlugin connectivity
+<Plugin connectivity>
+</Plugin>
+
+This example shows C<connectivity plugin> monitoring 2 interfaces, "eth0" and "eth1".
+LoadPlugin connectivity
+<Plugin connectivity>
+ Interface eth0
+ Interface eth1
+</Plugin>
+
+This example shows C<connectivity plugin> monitoring all interfaces except "eth1".
+LoadPlugin connectivity
+<Plugin connectivity>
+ Interface eth1
+ IgnoreSelected true
+</Plugin>
+
+=over 4
+
+=item B<Interface> I<interface_name>
+
+interface(s) to monitor connect to.
+
+=back
+
=head2 Plugin C<conntrack>
This plugin collects IP conntrack statistics.
sure B<cpufreqd> (L<http://cpufreqd.sourceforge.net/>) or a similar tool is
installed and an "cpu governor" (that's a kernel module) is loaded.
+If the system has the I<cpufreq-stats> kernel module loaded, this plugin reports
+the rate of p-state (cpu frequency) transitions and the percentage of time spent
+in each p-state.
+
=head2 Plugin C<cpusleep>
This plugin doesn't have any options. It reads CLOCK_BOOTTIME and
B<MeasureResponseCode> options are set to B<true>, B<Match> blocks are
optional.
+=item B<Interval> I<Interval>
+
+Sets the interval (in seconds) in which the values will be collected from this
+URL. By default the global B<Interval> setting will be used.
+
=item B<Timeout> I<Milliseconds>
The B<Timeout> option sets the overall timeout for HTTP requests to B<URL>, in
May be overridden by B<PluginInstanceFrom> option inside B<XPath> blocks.
Defaults to an empty string (no plugin instance).
+=item B<Interval> I<Interval>
+
+Sets the interval (in seconds) in which the values will be collected from this
+URL. By default the global B<Interval> setting will be used.
+
=item B<Namespace> I<Prefix> I<URL>
If an XPath expression references namespaces, they must be specified
=back
+=head2 Plugin C<gpu_nvidia>
+
+Efficiently collects various statistics from the system's NVIDIA GPUs using the
+NVML library. Currently collected are fan speed, core temperature, percent
+load, percent memory used, compute and memory frequencies, and power
+consumption.
+
+=over 4
+
+=item B<GPUIndex>
+
+If one or more of these options is specified, only GPUs at that index (as
+determined by nvidia-utils through I<nvidia-smi>) have statistics collected.
+If no instance of this option is specified, all GPUs are monitored.
+
+=item B<IgnoreSelected>
+
+If set to true, all detected GPUs B<except> the ones at indices specified by
+B<GPUIndex> entries are collected. For greater clarity, setting IgnoreSelected
+without any GPUIndex directives will result in B<no> statistics being
+collected.
+
+=back
+
=head2 Plugin C<grpc>
The I<grpc> plugin provides an RPC interface to submit values to or query
that the manual selection of an interface for unicast traffic is only
necessary in rare cases.
+=item B<BindAddress> I<IP Address>
+
+Set the outgoing IP address for IP packets. This option can be used instead of
+the I<Interface> option to explicitly define the IP address which will be used
+to send Packets to the remote server.
+
=item B<ResolveInterval> I<Seconds>
Sets the interval at which to re-resolve the DNS for the I<Host>. This is
=back
+=head2 Plugin C<pcie_errors>
+
+The I<pcie_errors> plugin collects PCI Express errors from Device Status in Capability
+structure and from Advanced Error Reporting Extended Capability where available.
+At every read it polls config space of PCI Express devices and dispatches
+notification for every error that is set. It checks for new errors at every read.
+The device is indicated in plugin_instance according to format "domain:bus:dev.fn".
+Errors are divided into categories indicated by type_instance: "correctable", and
+for uncorrectable errors "non_fatal" or "fatal".
+Fatal errors are reported as I<NOTIF_FAILURE> and all others as I<NOTIF_WARNING>.
+
+B<Synopsis:>
+
+ <Plugin "pcie_errors">
+ Source "sysfs"
+ AccessDir "/sys/bus/pci"
+ ReportMasked false
+ PersistentNotifications false
+ </Plugin>
+
+B<Options:>
+
+=over 4
+
+=item B<Source> B<sysfs>|B<proc>
+
+Use B<sysfs> or B<proc> to read data from /sysfs or /proc.
+The default value is B<sysfs>.
+
+=item B<AccessDir> I<dir>
+
+Directory used to access device config space. It is optional and defaults to
+/sys/bus/pci for B<sysfs> and to /proc/bus/pci for B<proc>.
+
+=item B<ReportMasked> B<false>|B<true>
+
+If true plugin will notify about errors that are set to masked in Error Mask register.
+Such errors are not reported to the PCI Express Root Complex. Defaults to B<false>.
+
+=item B<PersistentNotifications> B<false>|B<true>
+
+If false plugin will dispatch notification only on set/clear of error.
+The ones already reported will be ignored. Defaults to B<false>.
+
+=back
+
=head2 Plugin C<perl>
This plugin embeds a Perl-interpreter into collectd and provides an interface
CollectRegistrationTable true
CollectDF true
CollectDisk true
+ CollectHealth true
</Router>
</Plugin>
When enabled, the number of sectors written and bad blocks will be collected.
Defaults to B<false>.
+=item B<CollectHealth> B<true>|B<false>
+
+When enabled, the health statistics will be collected. This includes the
+voltage and temperature on supported hardware.
+Defaults to B<false>.
+
=back
=head2 Plugin C<redis>
information about each server's state and executes user-defined queries.
For each server there is a I<Node> block which configures the connection
parameters and set of user-defined queries for this node.
-Server state is requested by sending I<INFO> query.
<Plugin redis>
<Node "example">
Host "localhost"
Port "6379"
+ #Socket "/var/run/redis/redis.sock"
Timeout 2000
+ ReportCommandStats false
+ ReportCpuUsage true
<Query "LLEN myqueue">
#Database 0
Type "queue_length"
The B<Node> block identifies a new Redis node, that is a new Redis instance
running in an specified host and port. The name for node is a canonical
identifier which is used as I<plugin instance>. It is limited to
-64E<nbsp>characters in length.
+128E<nbsp>characters in length.
When no B<Node> is configured explicitly, plugin connects to "localhost:6379".
connections. Either a service name of a port number may be given. Please note
that numerical port numbers must be given as a string, too.
+=item B<Socket> I<Path>
+
+Connect to Redis using the UNIX domain socket at I<Path>. If this
+setting is given, the B<Hostname> and B<Port> settings are ignored.
+
=item B<Password> I<Password>
Use I<Password> to authenticate when connecting to I<Redis>.
=item B<Timeout> I<Milliseconds>
The B<Timeout> option set the socket timeout for node response. Since the Redis
-read function is blocking, you should keep this value as low as possible. Keep
-in mind that the sum of all B<Timeout> values for all B<Nodes> should be lower
-than B<Interval> defined globally.
+read function is blocking, you should keep this value as low as possible.
+It is expected what B<Timeout> values should be lower than B<Interval> defined
+globally.
Defaults to 2000 (2 seconds).
+=item B<ReportCommandStats> B<false>|B<true>
+
+Enables or disables reporting of statistics based on the command type, including
+rate of command calls and average CPU time consumed by command processing.
+Defaults to B<false>.
+
+=item B<ReportCpuUsage> B<true>|B<false>
+
+Enables or disables reporting of CPU consumption statistics.
+Defaults to B<true>.
+
=item B<Query> I<Querystring>
The B<Query> block identifies a query to execute against the redis server.
Within a query definition, an optional type instance to use when submitting
the result of the query. When not supplied will default to the escaped
-command, up to 64 chars.
+command, up to 128 chars.
=item B<Database> I<Index>
<Metric "snort-dropped">
Type "percent"
Instance "dropped"
- Index 1
+ ValueFrom 1
</Metric>
<File "/var/log/snort/snort.stats">
Plugin "snortstats"
Instance "eth0"
Interval 600
Collect "snort-dropped"
+ #TimeFrom 0
</File>
</Plugin>
if there is only one package and C<pkgE<lt>nE<gt>-coreE<lt>mE<gt>> if there is
more than one, where I<n> is the n-th core of package I<m>.
+=item B<RestoreAffinityPolicy> I<AllCPUs>|I<Restore>
+
+Reading data from CPU has side-effect: collectd process's CPU affinity mask
+changes. After reading data is completed, affinity mask needs to be restored.
+This option allows to set restore policy.
+
+B<AllCPUs> (the default): Restore the affinity by setting affinity to any/all
+CPUs.
+
+B<Restore>: Save affinity using sched_getaffinity() before reading data and
+restore it after.
+
+On some systems, sched_getaffinity() will fail due to inconsistency of the CPU
+set size between userspace and kernel. In these cases plugin will detect the
+unsuccessful call and fail with an error, preventing data collection.
+Most of configurations does not need to save affinity as Collectd process is
+allowed to run on any/all available CPUs.
+
+If you need to save and restore affinity and get errors like 'Unable to save
+the CPU affinity', setting 'possible_cpus' kernel boot option may also help.
+
+See following links for details:
+
+L<https://github.com/collectd/collectd/issues/1593>
+L<https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15630>
+L<https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=151821>
+
=back
=head2 Plugin C<unixsock>
Only I<Connection> is required.
+Consider the following example config:
+
+ <Plugin "virt">
+ Connection "qemu:///system"
+ HostnameFormat "hostname"
+ InterfaceFormat "address"
+ PluginInstanceFormat "name"
+ </Plugin>
+
+It will generate the following values:
+
+ node42.example.com/virt-instance-0006f26c/disk_octets-vda
+ node42.example.com/virt-instance-0006f26c/disk_ops-vda
+ node42.example.com/virt-instance-0006f26c/if_dropped-ca:fe:ca:fe:ca:fe
+ node42.example.com/virt-instance-0006f26c/if_errors-ca:fe:ca:fe:ca:fe
+ node42.example.com/virt-instance-0006f26c/if_octets-ca:fe:ca:fe:ca:fe
+ node42.example.com/virt-instance-0006f26c/if_packets-ca:fe:ca:fe:ca:fe
+ node42.example.com/virt-instance-0006f26c/memory-actual_balloon
+ node42.example.com/virt-instance-0006f26c/memory-available
+ node42.example.com/virt-instance-0006f26c/memory-last_update
+ node42.example.com/virt-instance-0006f26c/memory-major_fault
+ node42.example.com/virt-instance-0006f26c/memory-minor_fault
+ node42.example.com/virt-instance-0006f26c/memory-rss
+ node42.example.com/virt-instance-0006f26c/memory-swap_in
+ node42.example.com/virt-instance-0006f26c/memory-swap_out
+ node42.example.com/virt-instance-0006f26c/memory-total
+ node42.example.com/virt-instance-0006f26c/memory-unused
+ node42.example.com/virt-instance-0006f26c/memory-usable
+ node42.example.com/virt-instance-0006f26c/virt_cpu_total
+ node42.example.com/virt-instance-0006f26c/virt_vcpu-0
+
+You can get information on the metric's units from the online libvirt documentation.
+For instance, I<virt_cpu_total> is in nanoseconds.
+
=over 4
=item B<Connection> I<uri>
same guest across migrations.
B<hostname> means to use the global B<Hostname> setting, which is probably not
-useful on its own because all guests will appear to have the same name.
+useful on its own because all guests will appear to have the same name. This is
+useful in conjunction with B<PluginInstanceFormat> though.
You can also specify combinations of these fields. For example B<name uuid>
means to concatenate the guest name and UUID (with a literal colon character
Protocol "tcp"
LogSendErrors true
Prefix "collectd"
+ UseTags false
</Node>
</Plugin>
=item B<Prefix> I<String>
-When set, I<String> is added in front of the host name. Dots and whitespace are
-I<not> escaped in this string (see B<EscapeCharacter> below).
+When B<UseTags> is I<false>, B<Prefix> value is added in front of the host name.
+When B<UseTags> is I<true>, B<Prefix> value is added in front of series name.
+
+Dots and whitespace are I<not> escaped in this string (see B<EscapeCharacter>
+below).
=item B<Postfix> I<String>
-When set, I<String> is appended to the host name. Dots and whitespace are
-I<not> escaped in this string (see B<EscapeCharacter> below).
+When B<UseTags> is I<false>, B<Postfix> value appended to the host name.
+When B<UseTags> is I<true>, B<Postgix> value appended to the end of series name
+(before the first ; that separates the name from the tags).
+
+Dots and whitespace are I<not> escaped in this string (see B<EscapeCharacter>
+below).
=item B<EscapeCharacter> I<Char>
default), the plugin and plugin instance (and likewise the type and type
instance) are put into one component, for example C<host.cpu-0.cpu-idle>.
+Option value is not used when B<UseTags> is I<true>.
+
=item B<AlwaysAppendDS> B<false>|B<true>
If set to B<true>, append the name of the I<Data Source> (DS) to the "metric"
I<EscapeCharacter>. Otherwise, if set to B<true>, the C<.> (dot) character
is preserved, i.e. passed through.
+Option value is not used when B<UseTags> is I<true>.
+
=item B<DropDuplicateFields> B<false>|B<true>
If set to B<true>, detect and remove duplicate components in Graphite metric
names. For example, the metric name C<host.load.load.shortterm> will
be shortened to C<host.load.shortterm>.
+=item B<UseTags> B<false>|B<true>
+
+If set to B<true>, Graphite metric names will be generated as tagged series.
+This allows for much more flexibility than the traditional hierarchical layout.
+
+Example:
+C<test.single;host=example.com;plugin=test;plugin_instance=foo;type=single;type_instance=bar>
+
+You can use B<Postfix> option to add more tags by specifying it like
+C<;tag1=value1;tag2=value2>. Note what tagging support was added since Graphite
+version 1.1.x.
+
+If set to B<true>, the B<SeparateInstances> and B<PreserveSeparator> settings
+are not used.
+
+Default value: B<false>.
+
=back
=head2 Plugin C<write_log>
=over 4
+=item B<Host> I<Host>
+
+Bind to the hostname / address I<Host>. By default, the plugin will bind to the
+"any" address, i.e. accept packets sent to any of the hosts addresses.
+
+This option is supported only for libmicrohttpd newer than 0.9.0.
+
=item B<Port> I<Port>
Port the embedded webserver should listen on. Defaults to B<9103>.
=item B<GraphitePrefix> (B<Format>=I<Graphite> only)
A prefix can be added in the metric name when outputting in the I<Graphite>
-format. It's added before the I<Host> name.
+format.
+
+When B<GraphiteUseTags> is I<false>, prefix is added before the I<Host> name.
Metric name will be
C<E<lt>prefixE<gt>E<lt>hostE<gt>E<lt>postfixE<gt>E<lt>pluginE<gt>E<lt>typeE<gt>E<lt>nameE<gt>>
+When B<GraphiteUseTags> is I<true>, prefix is added in front of series name.
+
=item B<GraphitePostfix> (B<Format>=I<Graphite> only)
A postfix can be added in the metric name when outputting in the I<Graphite>
-format. It's added after the I<Host> name.
+format.
+
+When B<GraphiteUseTags> is I<false>, postfix is added after the I<Host> name.
Metric name will be
C<E<lt>prefixE<gt>E<lt>hostE<gt>E<lt>postfixE<gt>E<lt>pluginE<gt>E<lt>typeE<gt>E<lt>nameE<gt>>
+When B<GraphiteUseTags> is I<true>, prefix value appended to the end of series
+name (before the first ; that separates the name from the tags).
+
=item B<GraphiteEscapeChar> (B<Format>=I<Graphite> only)
Specify a character to replace dots (.) in the host part of the metric name.
default), the plugin and plugin instance (and likewise the type and type
instance) are put into one component, for example C<host.cpu-0.cpu-idle>.
+Option value is not used when B<GraphiteUseTags> is I<true>.
+
=item B<GraphiteAlwaysAppendDS> B<true>|B<false>
If set to B<true>, append the name of the I<Data Source> (DS) to the "metric"
I<GraphiteEscapeChar>. Otherwise, if set to B<true>, the C<.> (dot) character
is preserved, i.e. passed through.
+Option value is not used when B<GraphiteUseTags> is I<true>.
+
+=item B<GraphiteUseTags> B<false>|B<true>
+
+If set to B<true> Graphite metric names will be generated as tagged series.
+
+Default value: B<false>.
+
=item B<StoreRates> B<true>|B<false>
If set to B<true> (the default), convert counter values to rates. If set to
=back
+=head2 Plugin C<write_stackdriver>
+
+The C<write_stackdriver> plugin writes metrics to the
+I<Google Stackdriver Monitoring> service.
+
+This plugin supports two authentication methods: When configured, credentials
+are read from the JSON credentials file specified with B<CredentialFile>.
+Alternatively, when running on
+I<Google Compute Engine> (GCE), an I<OAuth> token is retrieved from the
+I<metadata server> and used to authenticate to GCM.
+
+B<Synopsis:>
+
+ <Plugin write_stackdriver>
+ CredentialFile "/path/to/service_account.json"
+ <Resource "global">
+ Label "project_id" "monitored_project"
+ </Resource>
+ </Plugin>
+
+=over 4
+
+=item B<CredentialFile> I<file>
+
+Path to a JSON credentials file holding the credentials for a GCP service
+account.
+
+If B<CredentialFile> is not specified, the plugin uses I<Application Default
+Credentials>. That means which credentials are used depends on the environment:
+
+=over 4
+
+=item
+
+The environment variable C<GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS> is checked. If this
+variable is specified it should point to a JSON file that defines the
+credentials.
+
+=item
+
+The path C<${HOME}/.config/gcloud/application_default_credentials.json> is
+checked. This where credentials used by the I<gcloud> command line utility are
+stored. You can use C<gcloud auth application-default login> to create these
+credentials.
+
+Please note that these credentials are often of your personal account, not a
+service account, and are therefore unfit to be used in a production
+environment.
+
+=item
+
+When running on GCE, the built-in service account associated with the virtual
+machine instance is used.
+See also the B<Email> option below.
+
+=back
+
+=item B<Project> I<Project>
+
+The I<Project ID> or the I<Project Number> of the I<Stackdriver Account>. The
+I<Project ID> is a string identifying the GCP project, which you can chose
+freely when creating a new project. The I<Project Number> is a 12-digit decimal
+number. You can look up both on the I<Developer Console>.
+
+This setting is optional. If not set, the project ID is read from the
+credentials file or determined from the GCE's metadata service.
+
+=item B<Email> I<Email> (GCE only)
+
+Choses the GCE I<Service Account> used for authentication.
+
+Each GCE instance has a C<default> I<Service Account> but may also be
+associated with additional I<Service Accounts>. This is often used to restrict
+the permissions of services running on the GCE instance to the required
+minimum. The I<write_stackdriver plugin> requires the
+C<https://www.googleapis.com/auth/monitoring> scope. When multiple I<Service
+Accounts> are available, this option selects which one is used by
+I<write_stackdriver plugin>.
+
+=item B<Resource> I<ResourceType>
+
+Configures the I<Monitored Resource> to use when storing metrics.
+More information on I<Monitored Resources> and I<Monitored Resource Types> are
+available at L<https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/api/resources>.
+
+This block takes one string argument, the I<ResourceType>. Inside the block are
+one or more B<Label> options which configure the resource labels.
+
+This block is optional. The default value depends on the runtime environment:
+on GCE, the C<gce_instance> resource type is used, otherwise the C<global>
+resource type ist used:
+
+=over 4
+
+=item
+
+B<On GCE>, defaults to the equivalent of this config:
+
+ <Resource "gce_instance">
+ Label "project_id" "<project_id>"
+ Label "instance_id" "<instance_id>"
+ Label "zone" "<zone>"
+ </Resource>
+
+The values for I<project_id>, I<instance_id> and I<zone> are read from the GCE
+metadata service.
+
+=item
+
+B<Elsewhere>, i.e. not on GCE, defaults to the equivalent of this config:
+
+ <Resource "global">
+ Label "project_id" "<Project>"
+ </Resource>
+
+Where I<Project> refers to the value of the B<Project> option or the project ID
+inferred from the B<CredentialFile>.
+
+=back
+
+=item B<Url> I<Url>
+
+URL of the I<Stackdriver Monitoring> API. Defaults to
+C<https://monitoring.googleapis.com/v3>.
+
+=back
+
=head2 Plugin C<xencpu>
This plugin collects metrics of hardware CPU load for machine running Xen
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